Unit 1 Amazing Words and Story Words



First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.1: Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! (Genre: Animal Fantasy) |

|Big Question: When does a problem need a clever solution? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. breath – air that goes in and out when you breathe |how |

|2. disagreed – had a different opinion |town |

|3. favorite – like the best |down |

|4. potato bug – beetles that eat potato leaves |now |

|5. tippy-toe – walk softly on the toes |brown |

| |cow |

|Amazing Words: |clown |

|1. clever – have a quick mind |frown |

|2. intend - plan to do something |crowd |

|3. predicament - a problem |10. growl |

|4. grumpy – in a bad mood | |

|5. exhausted – very tired |High Frequency Words: |

|6. furious – very angry |along |

|7. batter – a mixture of flour and liquid that becomes solid when you cook it |behind |

|8. griddle – heavy, flat, metal pan for cooking |eyes |

| |never |

|Comprehension: Character, Setting, and Plot, Monitor and Clarify |pulling |

|Fluency: Accuracy, Rate, and Expression |toward |

|Writing: Voice, Animal Fantasy | |

|Grammar: Imperative Sentences | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Remove Phonemes | |

|Phonics: Final Syllable -le | |

|Spelling: Diphthongs ow, ou | |

|Media Literacy: Techniques in Media | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.2: Mole and Baby Bird (Genre: Animal Fantasy) |

|Big Question: How can we look at things in a different way? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. borrowed – used something of someone else’s for a little while |mouth |

|2. presently - soon |house |

|3. usually - most often |found |

| |our |

|Amazing Words: |out |

|1. freedom - able to move around or do things without being held back |cloud |

|2. miserable – very unhappy |ouch |

|3. selfish – think only of yourself and not of others |shout |

|4. shrug – raise your shoulders to show that you do not care |round |

|5. ignore – do not listen to |10. count |

|6. fond – like something a lot | |

|7. proper – correct |High Frequency Words: |

|8. scarcely - hardly |door |

| |loved |

|Comprehension: Draw Conclusions, Background Knowledge |wood |

|Fluency: Accuracy. Rate, Expression, and Appropriate Phrasing |should |

|Writing: Voice, Letter to a Character | |

|Grammar: Pronouns | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Create Words, Remove Phonemes | |

|Phonics: V/CV. VC/V | |

|Spelling: Vowel Patterns ow, ou | |

|Listening and Speaking: Share Information and Ideas | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.3: Dot & Jabber & the Great Acorn Mystery (Genre: Informational Fiction) Big Question: How do we solve mysteries? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. detectives – people who try to find out things |book |

|2. hey – cry used to get attention |moon |

|3. hurray – cry of happiness |took |

|4. meadow – land covered in grass or hay |food |

|5. million – one thousand thousands |look |

|6. mystery – puzzle about something |pool |

|7. solve – find the answer to a mystery |zoo |

| |noon |

|Amazing Words: |good |

|1. explanation – tell how to do something |10. foot |

|2. riddle - question or problem that is hard to figure out | |

|3. wonder – want to know about something |High Frequency Words: |

|4. confused – not understand something |among |

|5. encouragingly – give someone hope |another |

|6. case – set of problems that needs to be looked into to see what happened |instead |

|7. suspects – someone believed to be guilty of a crime |none |

| | |

|Comprehension: Compare and Contrast, Monitor and Clarify | |

|Fluency: Expression and Intonation | |

|Writing: Word Choice, Questions | |

|Grammar: Pronouns I and Me | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Isolate Medial Phonemes, Segment and Blend Phonemes, Add Final Phonemes | |

|Phonics: Adding Endings | |

|Spelling: Vowel Sound in foot: oo | |

|Media Literacy: Techniques in Media | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.4: Simple Machines (Genre: Expository Text) |

|Big Question: How can a great idea make our lives easier? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. axles – rods that connect a pair of wheels |oil |

|2. inclined planes – flat surfaces that are slanted |soil |

|3. machines – things people use to help them do work |voice |

|4. pulleys – machines made up of a small wheel and freely moving rope |point |

|5. surface –outer part of a thing |boy |

|6. vacuum – machine that cleans by sucking up dirt |boil |

|7. lawn mower – a machine used to cut grass |coin |

| |oink |

|Amazing Words: |toy |

|1. convenient – easy to use and saves time or work |10. join |

|2. equipment – pieces or parts needed to do something special | |

|3. gadget – small tool that is used for a certain purpose |High Frequency Words: |

|4. engine – machine that is used to run another machine |against |

|5. pilot – person who flies a plane |goes |

|6. steer – to cause transportation to go in a certain direction |heavy |

|7. cellar – room or rooms built underground |kinds |

|8. furnace – used to warm buildings |today |

| | |

|Comprehension: Main Idea and Details, Summarize | |

|Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing | |

|Writing: Focus/Ideas, Advertisement | |

|Grammar: More About Pronouns | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Create Words, Change Phonemes | |

|Phonics: VowSuffixes –er, -or | |

|Spelling: Diphthongs oi, oy | |

|Media Literacy: Respond to Media | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.5: Alexander Graham Bell (Genre: Biography) |

|Big Question: How can a great idea change the way we live? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. Canada – the country north of the United States |saw |

|2. telephone – something used to talk to people far away |draw |

|3. Alexander Graham Bell – the person who invented the telephone |crawl |

|4. dehusker – a tool that takes the husks, or outer coverings, off wheat stalks |straw |

|5. piano – a large musical instrument that you play with your fingers |law |

|6. heard – listened to |jaw |

| |paw |

|Amazing Words: |yawn |

|1. determined – made your mind up to do it no matter what |hawk |

|2. inventor – a person who makes something for the first time |10. lawn |

|3. technology – science that is put to everyday use to make our lives easier and better | |

|4. stable – doesn’t tip over easily |High Frequency Words: |

|5. stalled – stopped suddenly |built |

|6. biplane – a plane that has two sets of wings, one above the other |early |

|7. sketch – a quick drawing |learn |

|8. speech – a talk that you give to a group of people |science |

| |through |

|Comprehension: Sequence, Text Structure | |

|Fluency: Expression and Intonation | |

|Writing: Sentences, Autobiography | |

|Grammar: Adverbs | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Change Phonemes, Segment & Blend Words, Create Words | |

|Phonics: Vowel Digraphs and Diphthongs | |

|Spelling: Vowel Sounds in ball: aw, au | |

|Media Literacy: Techniques of Media | |

First Grade Reading Street (Taken from )

|2014 Edition - Unit 5.6: The Stone Garden (Genre: Realistic Fiction) Big Question: What can happen when someone has a new idea? |

|Selection Words: |Spelling Words: |

|1. young – not old |unhappy |

|2. something marvelous |refill |

|3. buried – put something in the earth |untie |

|4. neighbors – people who live nearby |undo |

|5. curious – wanting to know |repay |

|6. bush – a woody plant that is smaller than a tree |unkind |

|7. vegetables – plants that people eat |undress |

| |retell |

|Amazing Words: |reopen |

|1. accomplish – |10. rewind |

|2. doubt – you don’t believe something or you’re not sure | |

|3. original – | |

|4. glider – an airplane that uses wind to fly |High Frequency Words: |

|5. (un)manned – |across |

|6. soar – fly high in the air |because |

|7. exclaim – to cry out with surprise or strong feeling |dance |

| |only |

|Comprehension: Theme, Inferring |opened |

|Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing |shoes |

|Writing: Conventions, Poem |told |

|Grammar: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases | |

|Phonemic Awareness: Segment and Blend Phonemes, Rhyming Words, Remove Phonemes | |

|Phonics: Long o: o; Long i: i | |

|Spelling: Prefixes un-, re- | |

|Media Literacy: Respond of Media | |

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